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20030131 Friday January 31, 2003

[HTML] Fieldset and Legend I was reminded today of the <fieldset> and <legend> tags in HTML (BTW, they also work in XHTML). Basically, they are used to draw and label a box around input elements. Here's an example:

<form action="">
<div>
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Name Information</legend>
        <label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
        <input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName" value="" /><br />
        <label for="lastName">Last Name:</label>
        <input type="text" name="lastName" id="lastName" value="" /><br />
    </fieldset>
    
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Address Information</legend>
        <label for="address">Address:</label>
        <input type="text" name="address" id="address" value="" /><br />
        <label for="city">City:</label>
        <input type="text" name="city" id="city" value="" /><br />
    </fieldset>
</div>
</form>

I added a little CSS for the fieldset and legend tags, and you end up with this:

Name Information

Address Information

Pretty cool eh? The labels end up in the text boxes (on some browsers) courtesy of the the label.js script. Posted in The Web at Jan 31 2003, 11:47:45 AM MST 2 Comments

Comments:

Raible - Thanks for the tip. I used this on a project just now to spice up and organize the form. Burke

Posted by Brian Burke on January 31, 2003 at 02:30 PM MST #

if i use fieldset and legend tag with including struts tag, it is not working

Posted by zzz on November 02, 2011 at 10:15 AM MDT #

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